Word: sino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shrinking Trade. The border tensions reflect the hostility and fear that characterize current Sino-Soviet relations. Frail diplomatic links still exist, though neither nation now maintains an ambassador in the other's capital. Party relations have been virtually nonexistent since 1963. Some trade still continues, but a recent Soviet survey reports that current two-way trade, estimated in 1967 to be $106 million, is less than 6% of 1961 levels. Given the steady disintegration of the once solid partnership of the two Communist giants, the frontier clashes-and last week's explosion-became inevitable...
...announcement in late November that it wants to reconvene next month the Warsaw ambassadorial talks with the U.S. They were last held a year ago and have since been postponed twice at Chinese insistence. What made the announcement particularly intriguing was Peking's inclusion of the suggestion that Sino-American relations be based on the principle of "peaceful coexistence," a phrase Peking has not used in relation to Washington since 1964. Perhaps the invitation to resume talks with the Americans was no more than an effort to rile the Soviet Union, which fears a Sino-American deal as much...
...them, North Viet Nam and Cuba, are heavily dependent on Russian arms and aid. The third, North Korea, customarily sides with the Russians in the Sino-Soviet dispute. On the other hand, the most biting protest of all came from, of all places, China. Mao and Co. would not think of tolerating a Dubcek in China, and they have berated Moscow precisely because it has been soft on reformers and "revisionists." Logically, therefore, the Chinese should have given the Russians good marks for learning their lesson. But Peking seized the opportunity to rip Moscow. "This is the most barefaced...
...Minister from 1963 until his removal two years later for undisclosed-and hitherto unnoticed-"health reasons," Thuy mouthed Hanoi's message, glad-handed visitors, and facelessly executed orders from above. He was replaced by Nguyen Duy Trinh, a pro-Peking hardliner. Although favoring Moscow, Thuy nimbly sidestepped the Sino-Soviet dispute: he was a founding member of Hanoi's friendship organizations with both the Soviet Union and China...
...Moscow's plans for a world conference to embarrass the Chinese, however, Tito and Ceauseşcu flew into each other's arms. Both fear that any such Communist togetherness could result in resolutions that would hamper their independence or force them to take sides in the Sino-Soviet dispute. In an effort to reassure them, the Russians have pledged that the conference would not be "a meeting designed to excommunicate the Chinese." But Ceauseşcu has turned down the Russians' invitation to a preliminary meeting next month in Budapest that will lay plans for such...